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by sterna 14y ago
I bought a netbook because I wanted a computer that I could easily bring along while traveling because I went to a lot of meetings abroad at the time. I could easily have afforded a laptop but they were not nearly as portable at the time, s
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by sterna 14y ago
Please be aware that Celsius is not a SI unit, Kelvin is used in stead as the standard temperature unit. The only reason why many people use Celsius is because it makes sense in their daily lives. The melting and boiling point of water are
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by sterna 14y ago
Mecanical parts are the most difficult thing to switch because there are many things defined in relation to one another. For example the american UNC threads have different angles than the metric ones do and therefore it is impossible to re
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by sterna 14y ago
Regionalized units have the same damaging effect to manufacturing as closed software ecosystems has to software development. The only reason most US citizens do not feel the pain of this fragmentation is that they do not have to buy anythin
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by sterna 14y ago
It is true that the US has had remarkebly high birth rates during the last 30 years compared to most of Europe and the rich cuntries in Asia. However, once the trend for low fertility has been established it is extremely difficult to break.
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by sterna 14y ago
That is not entirely true. Nuclear fission is not powered by the sun, nor are nuclear fusion plants on Earth (when they arrive). However, fission is only possible because of the existence of heavy nuclei that were initially created during s
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by sterna 14y ago
If you have a bounded system growth will eventually level out. Physical considerations makes it unfavorable to go below the atomic level for feature size. Therefore growth in transistors per area is bounded and Mores law will eventually sto
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by sterna 14y ago
Solid materials are much more complex than single atoms and support several types of multiple particle states. One noteworthy example is the Cooper pairs that result in conventional superconductivity. Spin-liquid states are also multi parti
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by sterna 14y ago
It is actually not very difficult to make stock, except you have to wait some hours for it to cook, so I guess lack of time to cook is the driving force behind soup stores. However, if you don't have the time to cook stock it is likely tha
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by sterna 14y ago
My mother committed suicide when I was five years old. She was lost for seven months and I never really understood she was dead until several months had passed. It took years before I actually came to the point where I could cry. Believe me
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by sterna 14y ago
The brain is designed to process signal and if there is none it will sometimes make up its own. I guess you can compare it to dark current in photo-multipliers. People who have tinnitus will hear the sound you describe or something similar
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by sterna 14y ago
Yes Chromium without sync works fine for me too. edit: Gmail works fine for me in Denmark, maybe it is only a regional outage?
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by sterna 14y ago
Phosphorus recovery is an important problem indeed, but there already exists a solution: http://www.grontmij.com/highlights/water-and-energy/Pages/pe... The main problem at the moment is a lack of incentives to use it at waste water treat
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by sterna 14y ago
Maybe less than two years ago, otherwise he would need to have superhuman powers :)
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by sterna 14y ago
This kind of user behavior will be very expensive in terms of capacity requirement at the super chargers. If everybody comes in at lunch time and dinner time there will be at least 30 minutes of queue to get to a charger.
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by sterna 14y ago
This is not the first time Norway has been interested in Thorium, already in the sixties they had plans to exploit their rather large Thorium deposit. India also has large deposits and also has a trial reactor scheme going similar to the on
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by sterna 14y ago
You can call it what you want but one thing is for sure. These prices demonstrate that the competition on the US telecom market is limited. In Denmark you only pay for out going sms (typically around 5 cent) and you can get a plan with unli
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by sterna 14y ago
Philanthropy is much bigger in the US than in the Nordic countries so there is much more money to go around. That being said there has traditionally been a feeling among the rich that they have already given their share to education through
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by sterna 14y ago
Denmark has been doing the same since the nineties and we have also developed over capacity. We get around the waste problem by "reusing" it in road construction. BTW Denmark is the neighbour to Sweden so I guess they have their inspiration
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by sterna 14y ago
You can already do this with Labview and National Instruments hardware. It is quite easy to program and Labview is inherently a parallel language so you get that for free, but the price is way too high. One FPGA module costs around 3000 $ a
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by sterna 14y ago
I can back you up with real word evidence for your claim. In Denmark we have system very close to what John Stewart proposes but still we have far fewer entrepreneurs than in the US. This suggests that culture is much more important for ent
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by sterna 14y ago
Wireless will never be able to match the bandwidth of fiber. Today fiber can transmit close to 10 Tb/s through a single line. This is orders of magnitude more than will ever be possible with wireless.
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by sterna 14y ago
The space shuttle was a poor design in many respects even by the standards of the 1970s as described in Feynman's Challenger crash report http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html Good design does magically appear as time goes
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by sterna 14y ago
I am sorry, but from the press release they have only added two new industry partners to help develop this battery. There is still a long way to go before they have anything near a working product. Press release: http://www-03.ibm.com/pres